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Monday, 9 May 2016

Our final forage walk in the 'WEEDS' series!

We've just had our very last 'WEEDS' forage walk!We can't believe it's been a whole year since our very first forage walk at Burton Gardens - an outdoor kitchen and playspace created with the support of Great Places Housing Group (Blackburn).

For this forage walk we wandered in search of wild garlic, as well as revisiting sorel, dandellions and more; returning to the outdoor kitchen to learn how to make pesto and have a nice cuppa raspberry leaf and dandellion tea. Having filled bellies with scrumptous food, we set about making room for lots of seeds we'd collected during a previous event.

Following from our forage walks, we'll be continuing to keep the garden active: carrying on foraging, but also looking into creating new artworks and useful objects / tools, made from things we find in the garden.

Thursday, 5 May 2016

206 BRICKS

Our current and evolving exhibition at Brierfield Library

We'd like to invite you to our exhibition! In-Situ,
an arts organisation in Brierfield, has been salvaging interesting
objects that we feel still have potential, at Northlight (Smith &
Nephew) Mill; creating performances and installations with them at
(y)our space at Brierfield Library.

From this has come a constantly evolving exhibition
of these objects (including more than 206 glass bricks!), alongside a
collection of local and far away photographer's journeys through the
mill: from documentary photography of it being stripped down in 2012 - 13 to words captured in light, in
rooms stood still in time.

The collection of photographs in this exhibition has
been created through working with Diane Muldowney, a local artist who
recognised that:

'After seeing all the photos at the mill, taken by
so many different people it would be a shame not to let the general
public have a chance to see them.'

Salvaged objects began being re-arranged by artists
at In-Situ, but has since been re-imagined by Shehroz Ali, a bright
young local artist who's been visiting us on his school holidays (his
piece is named: The Star of Brierfield Mill), alongside
several groups of other young people who've been visiting over the
past few weeks, creating walls, monuments, creating a new model for
libraries and more...

Also a part of this exhibition are designs made by
MSA (Manchester School of Architecture), who have spent an intense
and extremely exciting week here in Brierfield, imagining and
designing our space at Northlight Mill. These designs are the first
exciting steps towards evolving our space at the Mill – visions of
its future.

Exhibition on until Monday 30th
May.

So come in to Brierfield Library and have a look for
yourself; find out how many bricks there really are; rearrange the
installation; venture through time and mill space!